GI427 Half Unit
Research in Global Gender (In)Security
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Dr Aiko Holvikivi
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Gender, Media and Culture and MSc in Gender, Peace and Security. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process.
Students should apply by 10am UK time on Friday 26 September 2025. Offers will be made after 10am on this date and will continue until all places are filled.
Priority is given to those for whom the course is semi-core (if applicable), then home department students and then to those who have the course listed in their programme regulations who apply in the first 24-hours (by 10:00am, Friday 26 September 2025), space permitting. Students from outside Gender Studies are asked to submit a brief statement of interest (max. 200 words). Please note the timing of your request within the first 24-hours will not impact chances of being accepted onto the course. Requests received after this timeframe, or outside option requests, will be allocated based on statements if space remains.
Please do not email the Course Convenor with personal expressions of interest as these are not required and do not influence who is offered a place. Contact gender@lse.ac.uk with any queries.
Course content
Research in Global Gender (In)Security provides an in-depth examination of peace and security issues from a gender perspective. The course explores issues related to but also exceeding the international Women Peace and Security agenda (WPS) and specifically considers areas not covered in as much depth in the foundational (GI425) course. These include: 1) critical, feminist, and queer approaches to peace and security; 2) implementing international policy; 3) contemporary concerns; and (4) approaches to reading and writing global gender (in)security. The course foregrounds research practice in three distinct ways: the course content is developed through research-led teaching; we pay special attention to research methods in covering the course themes; and students produce a research paper as their final essay.
Teaching
30 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.
Formative assessment
Essay title and essay abstract presented for feedback from course instructors and peers.
Indicative reading
- Belkin, Aaron. 2012. Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001. Columbia University Press.
- Bustelo, Maria, Ferguson, Lucy; Forest, Maxime. 2017. The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise. Palgrave.
- Groarke, Margaret & Welty, Emily (eds). 2018. Peace and Justice Studies. Routledge.
- khulud, khamis. 2015. Haifa Fragments. New Internationalist.
- Väyrynen, Tarja, Parashar, Swati, Féron, Elise, Confortini, Catia Cecilia (eds). 2021. Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. Routledge.
Assessment
Essay (100%, 3000 words)
Key facts
Department: Gender Studies
Course Study Period: Winter Term
Unit value: Half unit
FHEQ Level: Level 7
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 25
Average class size 2024/25: 25
Controlled access 2024/25: YesCourse selection videos
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Personal development skills
- Leadership
- Self-management
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Communication